Matko Obradović (born 11 May 1991) is a Croatian

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er who plays as a

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Career

Obradović, coming from the

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peninsula, played in his hometown

Orebić Orebić is a port town and municipality in the Dubrovnik-Neretva county in Croatia. It is located on the Pelješac peninsula on the Dalmatian coast. Orebić is directly across a strait from the town of Korčula, located on the island of the s ...

, before moving for a season to Jadran LP, and then, aged 16, to a trial at

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. After a few test matches there, he joined the nearby

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team

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. There, while a member of the under-19 team, he played 13 matches for the senior team, and, in the summer of 2010, won the Croatian U19 amateur championship. After that, he joined

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in early 2011. Not getting a single cap for the first team, he signed for Krka in the

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. Achieving promotion to the

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, Obradović was selected in the best team of the 2013–14 season. After that, he moved to

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, where he won two league championships, and played two times in the group stage of the

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. After four years at Maribor, he moved to Mura in 2018. With Mura, he won the

2020–21 Slovenian PrvaLiga The 2020–21 Slovenian PrvaLiga was the 30th edition of the Slovenian PrvaLiga since its establishment in 1991. The season began on 22 August 2020 and ended on 22 May 2021. NK Celje, Celje were the defending champions, having won their first tit ...

, which was the first ever league title of the club.

Honours

Maribor *

: 2014–15, 2016–17 *

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: 2015–16 Mura *Slovenian PrvaLiga:

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*Slovenian Cup: 2019–20 Celje *Slovenian PrvaLiga: 2023–24

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Matko Obradović
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